🗓️ Last week of August. Preparation for a long weekend of work festival
🗞️ In today’s edition. Doja, State Whadle over the voter’s information. “A terrible investment in taxpayers’ money.” SEPTA crosses “bad at so many levels.” Born on the age of 50.
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💵 What do we hear. Pagop to the southwest and middle club both unanimously supported Garrita Stacy As their governor’s Governor’s voting, straw voting at the weekend.
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The best story
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“Letters between the US Department of Justice and the Department of State Pennsylvania reveal a polite but directed exchange in a nationwide struggle for the role of the federal government in elections.
The letter of August 14 from the Department of Justice asks for a copy of the Pennsylvania voter registration list, including the “full name of the recording, date of birth, housing address, [and] State driving license number or the last four digits of the social insurance number “in order to” register people for federal elections “.
Pensilings Secretary of Commonwealth al Schmidt refused to provide the information requested. “(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Elsewhere
Perry returns to attacks on post voting – three months after voting in this way. “It seems that the representative of the American Scott Perry is on board the plan of President Donald Trump to give up postal voting card-that he has voted many times since 2008. This includes post voting in the basic basis of 2025.” (York shipping)
Moore trades Trump with Trump on the threat of sending “soldiers” to Maryland. “President Trump threatened on Sunday” sending “soldiers” to Maryland after the Governor Wes Moore (D) invited the president to walk with him the streets of Baltimore-Baby Trump saved violently in the escalating Tit-For-Tat with a democratic governor. “(Axios)
Rancorous State Philly Transit tank. “Septa crosses the service and pedestrian tariffs among the budget deadlock in the legislation in Pennsylvania. The fight emphasizes regional lines of faults.” (Ruling)
Country
2. Pennsylvania lured Shell with a tax relief worth $ 1.65 billion. Now the company wants to sell its plant
“In 2020, the Energy Department predicted that Appalachia was” at the threshold of energy and petrochemical Renaissance “powered by heavy slate gas. The agency saw that Shell Plant Plant Plant is being built outside Pittsburgh as “the first of many objects” in Ohio, Western Virginia and Pennsylania.
Five years later, Shell stands alone, the only fleet of the proposed projects that were actually built. Now the company would like to sell it.
“” I think you look at the results board and say that it was a terrible investment of taxpayers’ money. ” (Inside Climate News)
Elsewhere
Bills that could prevent budget delay in Pennsylvania are not going anywhere. “In Pennsylvania, the lack of a state budget has increased from exception to the right to expect. The cost of ordinary delay of legislators is not only political; is personal for those who rely on state dollars.” (LNP)
Posts of public officials on Facebook subject to the same legal standards for knowledge as other records. “Judges may consider many factors to determine whether a post in social media of a public official is a public provision in accordance with Pennsylvania’s law to learn about the law, but ultimately matters whether it covers public activity, said the State Supreme Court.” (Penn Capital-Star)
The Commonwealth Foundation criticizes Shapiro for a budget impasse. “Now, when the budget in Pennsylvania in 2025, which was on June 30, was almost two months late, became a hot political potato. And which is burned – or accused – in the middle of the term in 2026.” (DV Journal)
Around the community of nations
3. Mass septa cuts are here and is “bad at so many levels”
“Septa warned us for two years.
Some people stopped listening because impoverishment was a continuous soundtrack of the transit system, and salvation always seemed to be coming at the last minute.
Not this time. Huge cuts in the Septa service began early in the morning on Sunday. “(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Elsewhere
Should Pennsylvania require helmets for motorcyclists? One legislator wants the exemption to be raised. “A representative of the state of the Berks counting proposes provisions that would require all motorcyclists to wear a protective headgear, regardless of age or experience, 22 years after the legislators from Pennsylvania raised the previous ban on the state.” (Erie Times-News)
The sixth Democrat comes in the race for the Congress headquarters of Pennsylvania. “The sixth Democrat entered the race to succeed in the retirement of the Congressmen from Philadelphia, Dwight Evans (D). Karl Morris from Philadelphia formally submitted to the Federal Election Commission to launch the third district headquarters in 2026.” (Whtm)
Philly’s Building Trades turned the relationship against Pasan Dugan when he runs against Da Larry Krasner as a republican. “The former judge drew key support for the Labor Council in a basic democratic. Then he announced that he would run as a republican.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Editorial
4. What do you think?
1 Boss Thing
5. 50 years ago Bruce Springsteen did a masterpiece. It wasn’t effortless
“The career of every star is the sum of wild incredibilities. So many things must be determined: ambitions, talent, discipline, cultural time, connections, support, perseverance and more than a bit of luck. Peter Ames Carlin focuses on the key moment of the make-albo breakthrough for Bruce Springsteen with “Tonight in Jungland: The Making of” Born To Run “.New York Times)
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